Join UCL's team for the 2024 CIUK Cluster Challenge

The deadline for applications to represent UCL at this year's CIUK Student Cluster Challenge is 23rd September. Please find details below of how you  (or if you’re a member of staff, students in your department) could take part.

Further information about the Cluster Challenge can be found on the CIUK website.

We plan to make a room available for teams to meet on the afternoon of the Online Challenge Launch, this will be the 3 hour window to work on the first challenge together. The time commitment required will be approximately 16 hours in total for the online challenges, plus in-person attendance at the conference in Manchester in December where the final challenge will take place.

How to join the team

If you would like to become a team member, please complete this form.

Please complete the form by 23rd September; notifications will be sent out on 24th September and we will register the team(s) shortly afterwards.

For those who were unable to attend the launch event that ARC ran on 9th September, but would still like to undertake the example challenge students were set, the information is included below. This example challenge was undertaken in small teams.

We hope you choose to take part - but if not, hopefully we'll see you at an upcoming Cluster Club Session - all students are welcome! We will be restarting the club sessions in November after reading week.

Example Challenge: STREAM Benchmark

- Download the STREAM benchmark and compile and run it.

- This will give 4 outputs, Copy, Scale, Add, Triad. Average these outputs to calculate a final score.

- The code should not be changed, investigate the compile options.

- Run the benchmark 6 times and take the median result.

- Produce a short report of your findings and email to: arc.teaching@ucl.ac.uk